Following the recent announcement of changes for the Student record 2016/17, this document contains more of the technical details for the new items and changes, for those changes made as a result of the Initial Teacher Training record review. For further details on the review, please see the recent ITT review. A full manual will be released in April/May 2016.

ITT Qualification Aim

Type

Field

Short name

ITTAIM

Description

This field holds only the general qualification aim of the programme in terms of both qualifications and professional statuses.

Applicable to

England

Coverage

All ITT courses (TTCID = 1 or Q)

Valid entries and labels

201 Professional status only

202 Both professional status and academic award

203 Professional status by assessment only route

Notes

Code 203 Professional status by Assessment Only Route is applicable to providers that have been accredited by 'Assessment Only Route' courses. However, NTCL expect all Assessment Only Route trainees to be recorded on their NTCL DMS system.

Reason required

To monitor provision and to allow the NTCL to accurately record the relevant qualification.

Part of

Instance

Field length

3

Minimum occurrences

0

Maximum occurrences

1

Entry route

Type

Field

Short name

ENTRYRTE

Description

This field describes the route by which the student has acessed ITT provision

Applicable to

England

Coverage

All ITT students (TTCID = 1 or Q)

Valid entries and labels

01 Provider-led

02 School Direct tuition fee

03 School Direct salaried

04 EYITT Graduate Entry

05 EYITT Graduate employment-based

06 EYITT Undergraduate Entry

07 EYITT Assessment Only

08 EYITT School Direct

Notes

To follow

Reason required

To monitor provision and to allow the NCTL to accurately record the routes through which students access ITT provision.

Part of

Instance

Field length

2

Minimum occurrences

0

Maximum occurrences

1

Placement school entity

Type

Entity

Short name

ITTPlacement

Description

This entity describes where and for how long a trainee is undertaking their school placement(s)

Applicable to

England

Coverage

All provider-led ITT students (ENTYRYRTE=01)

Notes

To follow

Reason required

To allow NCTL to track where trainees are on their placements, for statistical analysis and research

Part of

Instance

Minimum occurrences

1

Maximum occurrences

5

Has parts

ITTPlacement.PLMNTSCH

ITTPlacement.PLMNTDYS

Placement school

Type

Field

Short name

PLMNTSCH

Description

This fields describes a school where a trainee is undertaking a placement

Training programmes are designed to provide trainee teachers with sufficient time being trained in schools, early years and/or further education settings to enable them to demonstrate that they have met all the standards for QTS. This means they would typically be structured to include at least the following periods of time to be spent in training in schools, early years or further education settings:

A four year undergraduate programme - 160 days (32 weeks)

A one, two or three year undergraduate programme - 120 days (24 weeks)

A secondary graduate (non-salaried) programme - 120 days (24 weeks)

A primary graduate (non-salaried) programme - 120 days (24 weeks)

A salaried programme - As determined by the training programme.

Extract from current ITT criteria located on Gov.uk.

Reason required

To allow NTCL to track where trainees are on their placements, for statistical analysis and research

Part of

ITTPlacement

Field length

6

Minimum occurrences

1

Maximum occurrences

1

Number of days spent in placement school

Type

Field

Short name

PLMNTDYS

Description

This fields describes the number of days spent at a particular placement school

Applicable to

England

Coverage

All Placement school entities

Valid entries and labels

Number

Notes

Training programmes are designed to provide trainee teachers with sufficient time being trained in schools, early years and/or further education settings to enable them to demonstrate that they have met all the standards for QTS. This means they would typically be structured to include at least the following periods of time to be spent in training in schools, early years or further education settings

A four year undergraduate programme - 160 days (32 weeks)

A one, two or three year undergraduate programme - 120 days (24 weeks)

A secondary graduate (non-salaried) programme - 120 days (24 weeks)

A primary graduate (non-salaried) programme - 120 days (24 weeks)

A salaried programme - As determined by the training programme.

Extract from current ITT criteria located on Gov.uk.

Note: If a trainee has been to more than five placements, they should return the five they were at for the longest period of time.

Reason required

To allow NTCL to track where trainees are on their placements, for statistical analysis and research